import MySQLdb
    
_hostname = 'silo.cs.indiana.edu'
_username = 'b561_f11_26'
_password = 'b561_f11_26'
_database = 'b561_f11_26'

def GetConnection():
    conn = MySQLdb.connect(host=_hostname, user=_username, passwd=_password, 
		db=_database, use_unicode=True, charset = "utf8")
    return conn	
